LOS ANGELES—The efforts to recall Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin screeched to a halt after the city clerk announced on Jan. 18 the verified signatures filed by the campaign are insufficient. City Clerk Holly Wolcott said in a press release that the petition was found to have a total of 25,965 valid signatures—1,352 less than the 27,317 required. Venice Beach residents Nico Ruderman and Katrina Schmitt initiated the recall campaign in June and submitted in November 39,188 signatures—well over 27,400, the number required to trigger a recall election. This means that about 13,223 signatures were not verified by the city clerk. In December, the city clerk confirmed that enough “raw signatures” were collected for the petition to proceed to the verification stage, and the city clerk’s office must verify and announce the results within 30 days after the submission of signatures. Bonin responded to the recall’s failure in a …